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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 1364238, member: 173"] As a kid I was a huge 76ers fan. I was ten years old when the 1982 NBA Finals were played, and my parents let me take a nap so I could watch game 6, which is when the Lakers won the championship. I was convinced that was "our year", and I cried myself to sleep. I still remember that over thirty years later. I think I was disappointed for about twenty seconds when Syracuse lost to Michigan in the Final Four. (Honestly I had to think about it briefly when typing this to remember who Syracuse lost to). It's possible that you're correct and in general kids are effected when their team losses less than adults - but it doesn't at all match my life experience. Age and experience have significantly reduced the significance of sports outcomes to me, but when the Sixers lost in '82 it was like the end of the world to me. My distaste for the gratuitous shot of kids crying is based on my own experience. [/QUOTE]